Like little kids, we all experience a happy
rush, a delighted thrill, when going to play at an amusement
park. Yet when an amusement park is abandoned and an eerie
silence settles over the rusty and crusty decay, the setting
seems to twist the atmosphere of enthusiastic excitement into a
suffocating blanket of dread. The place takes on creepy vibes
and freaks people out. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New
Orleans and ripped the heart of fun and the amusement out of
this park. Almost six years later, Six Flags in New Orleans is
unnaturally silent, no lines and no laughter. This 140-acre
surreal setting has morphed into a nightmarish land of twisted
dreams. It seems as if the post-apocalyptic atmosphere might be
the perfect place to make a zombie movie. As if lured by a
distant echo of scattered screams and the ghost of good times,
urban explorers venture out of curiosity and capture the moments
and crumbling scenes. They share with us in a virtual urban
exploration tour of this creepy abandoned amusement park – Six
Flags New Orleans. Most of these photos are very recent, as in
taken during 2011, nearly six years after Hurricane Katrina
tried to swallow New Orleans and Six Flags. A special thank you
to the urban explorers who risked arrest, and possible zombie
attack, to go in and shoot these current shots of Six Flags, and
then gave us permission to use their copyright photos. This is
about twice the size of a normal post here, so we hope you
really enjoy this virtual urban exploration tour into the
defunct amusement park Six Flags New Orleans.

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